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'''Józef Tadeusz Milik''' (Seroczyn, [[Poland]], 24 March 1922 – [[Paris]], 6 January 2006) was a Polish [[biblical scholar]] and a Catholic priest, researcher of the [[Dead Sea Scrolls]] (DSS) through the deserts of Judea/Jordan, and translator and editor of the [[Book of Enoch]] in Aramaic (fragments).<ref>Martinez/Tigchelaar (1999). [https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7xcvitgyGmgU0sxOVV3SXVBZTQ/view?usp=sharing The Dead Sea Scrolls Study Edition]</ref>
He was fluent in [[Russian language|Russian]], [[Italian language|Italian]], [[French language|French]], [[German language|German]], and [[English language|English]] besides his native [[Polish language|Polish]], plus many ancient and dead languages including [[Hebrew]], [[Ancient Greek|Greek]], [[Latin]], [[Aramaic language|Aramaic]], [[Syriac language|Syriac]], [[Old Church Slavonic]], [[Arabic language|Arabic]], [[Georgian language|Georgian]], [[Ugaritic language|Ugaritic]], [[Akkadian language|Akkadian]], [[Sumerian language|Sumerian]], [[Egyptian language|Egyptian]], and [[Hittite language|Hittite]].
==Biography==
He was born into a peasant family in a small village in central [[Poland]]. His father, despite being a farmer, was interested in science, educated himself and
Józef Milik deciphered hundreds of the texts of the [[Dead Sea Scrolls]] as a member of the publication team. He started translating and publishing them in the early 1950s while a student at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-artifacts/dead-sea-scrolls/cast-of-characters/ | title=Cast of Characters| date=2012-04-16}}</ref>
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==Milestones==
* '''1944''' Entered [[Catholic University of Lublin]] to study [[Biblical Hebrew language|Hebrew]], [[Greek language|Greek]], [[Latin]], [[Aramaic]], [[Syriac language|Syriac]],
* '''1946''' Ordained as a [[Catholic]] priest in [[Warsaw]]
* '''Late-1940s''' Attended [[Pontifical Oriental Institute]] and [[Pontifical Biblical Institute]] to study [[Arabic language|Arabic]], [[Georgian language|Georgian]], [[Ugaritic language|Ugaritic]], [[Akkadian language|Akkadian]], [[Sumerian language|Sumerian]], [[Egyptian language|Egyptian]], and [[Hittite language|Hittite]]
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* '''1951''' Began working in [[Jerusalem]] to decipher DSS; devised a system of designating the fragments
* '''1955''' Co-edited first major DSS publication for Cave 1 texts: "Discoveries in the Judaean Desert"
* '''1956''' Heralded by [[Time (magazine)|''Time'' magazine]] as "the fastest man with a fragment"
* '''1959''' Published
* '''1969'''
* '''1976''' Published
After moving to Paris, Milik worked as a researcher for the [[Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique]] until his retirement in 1987.
==Bibliography==
* Milik (1957). [https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7xcvitgyGmgY3ZCSG5QRjQ3UUU/view Dix ans de découverte dans le désert de Juda] | Discoveries in the Judean Desert
* Milik (1972). ''Milki-sedeq et Milki-resa dans les anciens écrits juifs et chrétiens''.
* Milik (1976). [https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7xcvitgyGmgOTdEZ2RzMGthcE0/view?usp=sharing The Books of Enoch: Aramaic Fragments Qumran Cave 4] with the collaboration of Black M.<ref>The Enoch Scroll from Qumran Library Cave 4 has provided parts in Aramaic among the Dead Sea Scrolls discovery between 1947 and 1956. Table of Contents: Aramaic Book of Enoch; Astronomical Book; Book of Watchers; Book of Dreams; Book of Giants; Enochic Writings.</ref>
* Milik (1978). ''Écrits préesséniens de Qumran : d’Hénoch à Amram''.
* Martinez/Tigchelaar (1999). The Dead Sea Scrolls Edition [''Hénoc au pays des aromates'' pp. 413, 425, 430]; Caves 1 to 11 & more, with Aramaic frag. and English translation.
* Puech Emile (2000). “Milik, Jozef T.” in ''Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls'' edited by Lawrence Schiffman and James VanderKam. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000, I:552–554.
*Robert Feather and Zdzislaw J. Kapera (2011). ''Jozef Milik, Doyen of The Dead Sea Scrolls'', The Enigma Press, Krakow - Mogilany.
==References==
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* [http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article341010.ece The Independent's obituary]▼
* {{cite journal | author=Shanks, Hershel | year=2006 | title=Milestones: Jozef Milik (1922-2006) | journal=[[Biblical Archaeology Review]] | volume=32:3 | issue=May/June | pages=18}}▼
==External links==
▲* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060625225400/http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article341010.ece The Independent's obituary]
▲* {{cite journal | author=Shanks, Hershel | year=2006 | title=Milestones: Jozef Milik (
* [http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-artifacts/dead-sea-scrolls/cast-of-characters/ The Prodigious Priest: Jozef T. Milik]
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